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On Monday in an interview with CNN, Justice Ginsburg called Trump “a faker,” who “has no consistency about him.” In that interview, she added: “He says whatever comes into his head at the moment. He really has an ego.”

Those comments came on top of ones she made to the New York Times on Sunday, when she said, “I can’t imagine what our country would be with Donald Trump as our president” and to the Associated Press last Friday regarding a possible Trump victory November, “I don’t want to think about that possibility, but if it should be, then everything is up for grabs.”

The editorial boards of both the liberal Washington Post and the New York Times published pieces this week saying that Ginsburg’s comments were inappropriate for a sitting Supreme Court justice. The Post pointed out that the Code of Conduct for United States Judges plainly states “judge should not . . . publicly endorse or oppose a candidate for public office.”

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The Times editors’ subject line simply read, “Donald Trump Is Right About Ruth Bader Ginsburg.” The candidate told the paper on Tuesday, “I think it’s highly inappropriate that a United States Supreme Court judge gets involved in a political campaign, frankly, I couldn’t believe it when I saw it.”

Trump tweeted the next day:

Justice Ginsburg of the U.S. Supreme Court has embarrassed all by making very dumb political statements about me. Her mind is shot – resign!

“For her to come out and to say the kind of things there is almost something wrong with her. I don’t think anyone has ever seen that before,” Trump said.

“So are you questioning her mental capacity?” Baier asked.

“Yeah, I think I am. I think I’m questioning perhaps her mental capacity,” Trump said. “For her to do that was either a very dumb mistake. and she’s been criticized by people who would always be on her side.”

Ginsburg was appointed to the Supreme Court by President Bill Clinton in 1993.